Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

What are the cretins like, though, proper weird?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cretins · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cretins	det
4	cretins	cretin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 weird	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	though	though	ADV	_	10 weird	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 though	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weird	amod
10	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cretins	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cretins						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Quiet folk with big smiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folk	amod
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 smiles	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smiles	amod
5	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 folk	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yellow faces and lumpy necks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 faces	amod
2	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 necks	cc
4	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 necks	amod
5	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 faces	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

They have yellow faces and lumpy necks and they stare at strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faces	amod
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 necks	cc
6	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 necks	amod
7	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faces	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stare	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stare	nsubj
10	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 strangers	case
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	yellow faces and lumpy necks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	stare	present	faces = face					at strangers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stranger=Theme

Option 4

Pretty normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 normal	advmod
2	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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